About Google Chrome browser

morning-tea · 11-20-2022, 08:52 PM

Hi all,

Ubuntu 22.04

Google Chrome browser

The font size of the URL is too small, difficult to type in correctly. Please advise how to increase its font size. Thanks

Please refer to attached screenshot

Thanks

rokytnji · 11-20-2022, 09:40 PM

In the top r/h corner is 3 dots in your browser.

Click on that and change zoom setting by the + sign to make things larger.

morning-tea · 11-20-2022, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

In the top r/h corner is 3 dots in your browser.

Click on that and change zoom setting by the + sign to make things larger.

Hi,

Thanks for your advice.

I already did it. On the 3 vertical dots -> Zoom 175% (selected)

It only changes the text font size of the page but the URL font still remains small.

Regards

dugan · 11-21-2022, 12:40 PM

Install GNOME Tweaks and use it to set it to double the font DPI.

morning-tea · 11-21-2022, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

Install GNOME Tweaks and use it to set it to double the font DPI.

Thanks for your advice.

I already have Tweaks installed. I have been playing round on Tweaks but I could increase the font size on pages except the font on URL

It is quite strange to me.

Regards

mrmazda · 11-22-2022, 12:54 AM

What did you use to make the tab text extra large? Same or similar procedure should make the urlbar text larger. In Mozilla browsers this can be controlled via userChrome.css, an optional file in each browser profile.

morning-tea · 11-22-2022, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmazda

What did you use to make the tab text extra large? Same or similar procedure should make the urlbar text larger. In Mozilla browsers this can be controlled via userChrome.css, an optional file in each browser profile.

On Google Chrome browser
Settings -> Appearance
Font size -> Very large
Page zoom -> 175%

Still no effect. The font size of URL still remains very small. I have posted my problem on their forum but no reply.

There is no such a problem on Firefox

Regards

lvm_ · 11-22-2022, 02:47 AM

Page zoom and font affect only the page content and have no effect on window decorations. Two things to tinker with: skinnable UI (chrome settings-appearance-use system title bar) and system menu and toolbar fonts - you are not telling which DE you are using, but e.g. in KDE it is in appearance-fonts. Also when you say 'google chrome' do you mean that you actually downloaded binaries from the google site? If yes, replace it with chromium from the repo.

hish2021 · 11-22-2022, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmazda

What did you use to make the tab text extra large? Same or similar procedure should make the urlbar text larger. In Mozilla browsers this can be controlled via userChrome.css, an optional file in each browser profile.

Google Chrome doesn't have (or read) userChrome.css. The customization afforded in Firefox is missing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lvm_

Page zoom and font affect only the page content and have no effect on window decorations. Two things to tinker with: skinnable UI (chrome settings-appearance-use system title bar) and system menu and toolbar fonts - you are not telling which DE you are using, but e.g. in KDE it is in appearance-fonts. Also when you say 'google chrome' do you mean that you actually downloaded binaries from the google site? If yes, replace it with chromium from the repo.

Google Chrome, Chromium and Brave all have the same issue, irrespective of DE. The address bar text remains tiny.

Things like scaling or changing the dpi affect everything on the screen.

Google had this as a WontFix. See this bug as well.

For users of the Brave browser, see this GitHub issue.

morning-tea · 11-22-2022, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lvm_

Page zoom and font affect only the page content and have no effect on window decorations. Two things to tinker with: skinnable UI (chrome settings-appearance-use system title bar) and system menu and toolbar fonts - you are not telling which DE you are using, but e.g. in KDE it is in appearance-fonts. Also when you say 'google chrome' do you mean that you actually downloaded binaries from the google site? If yes, replace it with chromium from the repo.

Hi,

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 GNOME desktop.

I can't recall exactly how to install Google-chrome. Most likely install Google-chrome on its website

Regards

jamison20000e · 11-24-2022, 10:59 AM

I didn't read all the posts but did you try the magnifiers from accessibilities?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ogrammatically

Have fun!

dugan · 11-26-2022, 08:05 PM

GNOME Tweaks -> Fonts -> Scaling Factor.

Change the value from 1 to 2.

It definitely works.

hish2021 · 11-27-2022, 12:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan

GNOME Tweaks -> Fonts -> Scaling Factor.

Change the value from 1 to 2.

It definitely works.

Yes. Everything is enlarged. The original post is about the size of text in the address bar.